Thanks, everyone, for the tips. I started installing Debian Potato last
night, and all seems to be going pretty well (if a bit slowly). Didn't
realize that Debian would install with only 12 MB RAM, but it does. I'm
beginning to see the beauty of apt-get.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Edwin P. Groot
To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sent: 1/9/2002 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Linux distro for lightweight box
Debian 2.2r2 worked OK at an installfest last year on my 486 DX2-66
with 16 MB RAM and 200 MB HDD. During the install it even supported the
funky-old CD-ROM connected to the proprietary Mitsumi interface of a
soundblaster-16 card. I ran X with a 2 MB VLB graphics card. The
window
manager was .. I can't remember because I sold the machine before I left
for Germany. It was not KDE, but sounded like fvwm. The machine played
.au and .wav OK, but choked on MP3s > 96 kbps bitrate or 22 KHz. I also
ran Netscape and StarOffice on my isun account via a telnet session and
exported to an X session on the 486 (forgot exactly how that trick
works).
That's what this machine could do. I can't guarantee this works on
12
MB, but why not try?
FWIW Chris McKenzie (a CS grad student) knew a lot about BSD on old
machines.
Gruess,
Edwin
At 19:37 1/8/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good Linux distro for an old machine (486 w/ 12
MB
>RAM)? I've managed to install TINY Linux, which is based on Slackware
3.5
>or so, but I think I'd like something a bit more polished. All of the
major
>distributions require at least 32 MB RAM AFAIK, so they're out. I also
>tried OpenBSD, but had problems (it's been awhile, so I don't remember
>precisely what went wrong).
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
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